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...goods-dumping moves have provided such keen competition for Italian exports that not even the most drastic dictating has been able to achieve for Italy a favorable balance of trade. Her excess of imports over exports for the first five months of this year was 1,157,000,000 lire ($95,552,500). Today II Duce is seeking a solution by the conquest of Ethiopia reported by recent geological surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped earthly riches (TIME, Feb. 25). He was last week ready literally to defend the lira with Italian blood. Abruptly...
...frontier city of Susak, where Italian and Yugoslav guards with fixed bayonets have glared at each other for years across barbed wire entanglements, suddenly last week Yugoslavian wheat began to pour in a golden tide onto Italian ships, paid for with Il Duce's pegged-to-gold lire...
...last week, pausing an instant as he dictated Fascist orders of the day. "Get Stresa ready for a conference on April 11. Veneer the railway station with marble. Repave the principal streets. Clean up everything-the usual precautions. And don't spend more than 2,000,000 lire...
Into this fund goes 1% of the worker's pay, matched by a like sum which the State forces the employer to contribute. On overtime work the percentage is quintupled. "We calculate that the yearly sum thus raised will be 200,000,000 lire ($17,000,000)," said Grand Councilman Cianetti. "This is distributed among men with families, in proportion to the number of their children. The average works out to one lira per day (8½?) per child...
Last May Publisher Agnelli opened La Stampa's new 19,000,000-lire ($1,600,000) building, a model plant with the latest presses, telephoto receiving apparatus and even television rooms. Last month he plunged far ahead of his competitors with a venture unheard of in the U. S. He supplied each of La Stampa's foreign bureaus with portable wireless sets to flash photographs to the Turin plant...